How much revenue did Ancient Kingdoms make?

$55k–$149k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancient Kingdoms sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancient Kingdoms sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 508 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $55k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$229k before Steam's cut; from 508 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Ancient Kingdoms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancient Kingdoms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–698k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Ancient Kingdoms

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–698k copies

≈ $10k–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 572 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and CRPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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